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GAPS’ Working Paper Series ‘Decentring the Study of Migrant Returns and Readmission Policies in Europe and Beyond’ features recent research output by the team members of 17 partner institutions involved in the Horizon Europe GAPS project, and is open to all researchers working on similar topics.
We welcome proposals for Working Papers from researchers. Please contact: soner.barthoma@crs.uu.se
For further paper submission rules and author guidelines, more information will be available here.
This report examines how European return policies towards Iraqi migrants generate trade‑offs between state interests in migration control and the protection of fundamental human rights within return programmes. It explores return cases from Sweden and Germany, focusing on Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration (AVRR) schemes and how these are incorporated within…
Read MoreThe WP8 Afghan country survey report presents descriptive findings from a quantitative study of return experiences and conditions among Afghan returnees. A total of 416 individuals were randomly selected and surveyed across four provinces—Kabul, Herat, Mazar-e Sharif, and Kandahar—using…
Read MoreThis research digest examines the evolving dynamics of Nigeria’s bilateral cooperation with European Union (EU) Member States in the field of migration diplomacy, focusing particularly on return migration policies. Against the backdrop of increasing irregular migration from Nigeria to Europe, this digest explores the complex interplay of political, economic…
Read MoreThis research digest examines the EU-Georgia readmission agreement (signed 2011) as a paradigmatic case of EU migration externalisation policy, revealing both its operational success and strategic limitations. Georgia, a small Eastern Partnership country characterized by high emigration (over 20% of its population), has been widely lauded as a EU "success story" for…
Read MoreThis paper examines the social and contextual determinants of public attitudes toward such returns in five EU member states: Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, Poland, and Sweden. Drawing on original survey data, we explore how individual-level characteristics such as…
Read MoreThis synthesis report is part of Work Package 3 of the GAPs ‘De-centring the Study of Migrant Returns and Readmission Policies in Europe and Beyond’ project. The report focuses on the concept of ‘Return Migration Infrastructures (RMIs)’, aiming to thoroughly study how return migration governance is put into practice at the everyday implementation level…
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